Author: H. V. RouthPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
god, man, and epic poetry
Author: H. V. RouthPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
god, man, & epic poetry
Author: H. V. RouthPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
God, Man, & Epic Poetry
Author: Harold Victor RouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
God, Man, & Epic Poetry
Author: Harold Victor RouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
God, Man, & Epic Poetry: Classical
Author: Harold Victor RouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
God, Man, & Epic Poetry
Author: Harold Victor RouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
God, Man, & Epic Poetry: Medieval
Author: Harold Victor RouthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Paradise Lost
Author: John MiltonThe War with God
Author: Pramit ChaudhuriPublisher:
ISBN: 0199993386
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
By examining literary accounts of theomachy (literally "god-fight"), The War With God provides a new perspective on the canonical literary traditions of epic and tragedy, and will be of great interest to scholars in Classics as well as those working on the European epic and tragic traditions. The struggle between human and god has always held a prominent place in classical literature, especially in the closely related genres of epic and tragedy, ranging from the physical confrontation of Achilles with the river-god Scamander in Iliad 21 to Pentheus' more figurative challenge to Dionysus in Euripides' Bacchae. Yet perhaps the most intense engagement with theomachy occurs in Latin literature of the 1st century AD, which included not only the overreachers of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Hannibal's assault on Capitoline Jupiter in Silius Italicus' Punica, but also, in the richest and most extended treatments of the theme, the transgressive figures of Hercules in Seneca's Hercules Furens and Capaneus and Hippomedon in Statius' Thebaid. This book, therefore, explores the presence of theomachy in Roman imperial poetry, focusing on Seneca and Statius, and sets it within a tradition going back through the Augustan age all the way to archaic Greece. The central argument of the book is that theomachy symbolizes various conflicts of authority: the poets' attempts to outdo their literary predecessors, the contentions of rival philosophical views, and the violent assertions of power that characterized both autocratic authority and its opposition. By drawing on evidence from literature, politics, religion, and philosophy, this project reveals the various influences that shaped the intellectual and cultural significance of theomachy: from Stoic and Epicurean debates about the gods to the divinization of the emperor, from poetic competition with Vergil and Homer to tyranny and revolution under the Julio-Claudian and Flavian dynasties.
The Half-God of Rainfall
Author: Inua EllamsPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008324786
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.